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Scalable Data Architecture with Java

By : Sinchan Banerjee
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Scalable Data Architecture with Java

By: Sinchan Banerjee

Overview of this book

Java architectural patterns and tools help architects to build reliable, scalable, and secure data engineering solutions that collect, manipulate, and publish data. This book will help you make the most of the architecting data solutions available with clear and actionable advice from an expert. You’ll start with an overview of data architecture, exploring responsibilities of a Java data architect, and learning about various data formats, data storage, databases, and data application platforms as well as how to choose them. Next, you’ll understand how to architect a batch and real-time data processing pipeline. You’ll also get to grips with the various Java data processing patterns, before progressing to data security and governance. The later chapters will show you how to publish Data as a Service and how you can architect it. Finally, you’ll focus on how to evaluate and recommend an architecture by developing performance benchmarks, estimations, and various decision metrics. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to successfully orchestrate data architecture solutions using Java and related technologies as well as to evaluate and present the most suitable solution to your clients.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Foundation of Data Systems
5
Section 2 – Building Data Processing Pipelines
11
Section 3 – Enabling Data as a Service
14
Section 4 – Choosing Suitable Data Architecture

Optimizing performance

One of the main reasons that benchmarking, performance testing, and monitoring of applications and systems are done is because of a goal – to optimize the performance so that the system can work to its best potential. The difference between extraordinary software and ordinary software is determined by how well the system is tuned for better performance. In this section, we will learn about various techniques you can use to fine-tune your data engineering pipeline. Although performance tuning is a vast topic, when it comes to various data engineering solutions, we will try to cover the basics of optimizing Java-based data engineering solutions. In the following subsection, we will briefly look at various performance tuning techniques.

Java Virtual Machine and garbage collection optimizations

Java Virtual Machine (JVM) performance tuning is the process of adjusting the various JVM arguments or parameters to suit the need of our application so that...